Attaching device



Oct. 7, 1941. I H. COHEN ATTAGHING DEVICE .Filed Aug. 2, 1940 Bnventor HARRY COHEN attorney Patented Oct. 7, 1941 ATTACHING DEVICE Harry Cohen, New York, N. Y., assignor to I. B. Kleinert Rubber Company, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application August 2, 1940, Serial No. 349,792

4 Claims.

This invention relates to attaching devices.

While useful for other purposes, the present invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in connection with a dress shield in which relation it is highly advantageous. Numerous attempts have been made to provide dress shields which can be removably attached to the garment whereby to obviate the necessity for sewing the dress shield in place. For one reason or another, such attempts have not been, in the main, entirely satisfactory. Usually safety pins are utilized for removably attaching the dress shields to the garment with the result that the insertion of the pin through the intermediate, sheet rubber layer of the dress shield results in tearing of said rubber layer and the impairment or destruction of the protective character thereof, especially when the pin is inserted at a plurality of difierent points in the repeated re-att-achment of the shield after removal thereof. In order to obviate this difliculty it has been proposed to secure the safety pin in a fixed position on the flaps of the dress shield so that the pin could not be removed, but this is undesirable because the pin thus attached to the dress shield is held in fixed position and is thereby prevented from adjusting itself to the proper line of pull between the shield and the part of the dress to which the pin is attached, and moreover the permanent attachment of the pin to the dress shield is a source of danger to the person washing the shields, as the prong is apt to become disengaged from the safetyhead or guard of the pin. The permanent attachment of the pin to the shield is undesirable also because when the shields are Washed together with other articles the prongs of the pins when disengaged from the heads thereof are apt to catch on other articles or on other shields washed therewith, thereby resulting in damage to other articles or shields. One of the objects of the present invention is to obviate these and other disadvantages and objections.

Another object of the invention is to provide a fastening device for a dress shield or other article which can readily be removably secured to the article and which is automatically adjustable in angular relation to the article.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a safety-pin attaching device constructed and arranged so that the pin can be removably secured in fastening position to an article or to part of the same article without penetration of the prong of the pin therein.

The above objects of the invention and other objects which might hereinafter appear will be fully understood from the following description considered with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which: 7

Fig. 1 is a View of an attaching device embodying the present invention and shows part of an article to which it is secured;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view, on a larger scale, on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing another form of the invention;

Fig. 4 is a view of a dress shield showing the attaching device of the present invention applied thereto.

Referring now to the drawing in further detail, the attaching device embodying the present invention comprises a safety pin 10, which can be a conventional safety pin, but which is preferably provided with a looped spring end 12 instead of the usual coil-end. Said spring end 12 lies in a single plane and is connected to the side wire l4 and to the releasable prong l6 of the pin by inwardly bent portions is forming a restricted portion between the spring end and the rest of the pin, said end [2, portions l8, prong l6, and side Wire l4 being integral with each other. Said looped end I2 is clamped between opposed parts here shown as circular flanges 20 of the stud or male member 22 of a snap fastener and encircles the shank of said stud, said shank extending laterally of the safety pin at right angles to the plane of said pin. The female part or socket 24 of the snap fastener is secured to the article which is to be provided with the attaching device, a portion of said article being indicated at 26 in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. In the form of the invention illustrated in Fig. 3 the spring end IZa of the safety pin is U-shaped, the inwardly bent portions I8 of the pin shown in Fig. 1 being omitted. In other respects the construction of this form of the attaching device is the same as that illustrated in Figs. land 2.

Thus, the attaching device as above described comprises a safety pin and a snap fastener, the male or stud part of the snap fastener being permanently attached to the spring end of the safety pin and the female part of the snap fastener being secured to the article provided with the attaching device. An important advantage of this construction is that when the article is to be washed or if for any other reason it is desired to remove the safety pin it is merely necessary to disengage the stud 22 of the snap fastener from the socket 24 thereof, the pin remaining closed and attached to the dress or other article if that is desired. An additional important advantage is that when the safety pin is attached to the article by engagement of the stud with the socket of the snap fastener, said stud is rotatable in said socket so that the pin can be moved to various positions as may be desirable or necessary when the pin is secured in position by its prong.

In Fig. 4 the present invention is shown applied to a dress shield 28 which customarily comprises two separable sections 30 and 32 united with each other only along an upper concave edge 34 and otherwise separable from each other. While the dress shield here illustrated is of conventionally crescent shape, said dress shield can be of any other shape or type, for example, full fashioned, approximately triangular, etc., the shape of the shield and the specific construction thereof being variable. As here shown the attaching devices of the construction described above are provided at the upper points of the shield and at the lower tips of each of the sections 30 and 32 of the shield. More in detail, as here shown, a socket 24 of a snap fastener is secured at each upper point of the section 30 of the shield, the entrance opening of said socket being located on the inner surface of section 30 of the shield. When pin I is attached it is located between the two sections 30 and 32 of the shield and the attached stud 22 of the companion part of a the snap fastener is received in the companion socket 24, the pin being thus pivotally connected to the section of the shield which carries the companion socket 24 of the snap fastener. At the lower edge of the shield a snap fastener socket 24 is secured to the shield 30 and a similar snap fastener socket 24 is secured to the section 32, the entrance opening of each socket being on the inner surfaces of the companion section of the shield, and the pins l0 and their companion fastener stud parts 22 being located between said two sections and engaged, respectively, in their companion socket parts of the snap fasteners, said pins It] being each pivotally movable in relation to their companion sections of the shield.

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of the invention, including two forms thereof, it will be understood that the invention may be embodied otherwise than as here shown. For example, as stated above, the safety pin can be a conventional safety pin which ordinarily has a coil spring end instead of the circular looped end, illustrated in Fig. 1, or the U-shaped end, illustrated in Fig. 3. Also, while as stated above, the invention is especially advantageous in,connection with dress shields it is useful for other purposes and in general can be used for attachment purposes where a pin is desired as the attaching means in combination with means for releasably securing the pin in position or for fastening one article or a part thereof to another article or to a part of the same article in such manner as to permit unfastening of said articles or said parts without opening the safety pin or without removing the pin from one of the articles or from one of said parts. Accordingly, as the attaching devices of the present invention are susceptible of numerous changes as to details of construction and as said attaching device can be used for numerous purposes other than for the purposes herein specifically described, I do not wish to be limited either as to the construction or as to the uses of the attaching devices herein disclosed except to the extent which may be required by the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An attaching device for releasably securing one article or a part thereof to another article or to a part of the same article, said device comprising a safety pin having a prong and a guard for the free end of the prong, a snap-fastener stud having a shank and opposed parts extending laterally of said shank, said safety pin having a part secured to said stud between said opposed parts thereof, said shank extending at right angles to the plane of said pin, and a snap-fastener socket member constructed and arranged to be secured to one of said articles or article parts and to be releasably engaged by said snap-fastener stud for releasably securing said stud to said one of said articles or article parts.

2. An attaching device for releasably securing one article or a part thereof to another article or to a part of the same article, said device compris ing a safety pin having a prong, a guard for the free end of the prong, and a spring end for holding said prong releasably engaged with said guard, a snap-fastener stud secured to said spring end of the safety pin and having a shank projecting laterally of said safety pin at right angles to the plane thereof for engagement with a companion snap-fastener socket member constructed and arranged to be secured to one of said articles or article parts for releasably securing said stud to said one of said articles or article parts.

3. An attaching device for releasably securing one article or a part thereof to another article or to a part of the same article, said device comprising a safety pin having a prong, a side wire, a spring end portion connecting said side wire and prong at one end of the pin, and a guard for the free end of the prong at the other end of the pin, a snap-fastener stud secured to said pin at said spring end portion thereof, said stud having opposed parts between which said spring end portion is clamped, and a snap-fastener socket member constructed and arranged to be secured to one of said articles or article parts and to be releasably engaged by said snap-fastener stud for releasably securing said stud to said one of said articles or article parts.

4. An attaching device for releasably securing one article or a part thereof to another article or to a part of the same article, said device comprising a safety pin having a prong, a side wire, a spring end portion connecting said side wire and prong at one end of the pin, and a guard for the free end of the prong at the other end of the pin, a snap-fastener stud secured to said pin at said spring end portion thereof, said stud havingopposed parts between which said spring end portion is clamped, said stud having a shank extending axially thereof at right angles to the plane of the pin in position between the opposite sides of the pin for engagement with a companion snap-fastener socket member constructed and arranged to be secured to one of said articles or article parts for releasably securing said stud to said one of said articles or article parts.

HARRY COHEN. 

